{"title":"Fuels market in Belgium","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/be/091-fuels","scope":"Belgium","category":{"cpvGroup":"091","label":"Fuels"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Belgium awarded 55 supply contracts for fuels through award notices on TED; the 24 of them that state a value (43.6%) add up to €55.3 million, a floor rather than the full contract value. Belgium imported €42.1 billion of goods in the customs headings matched to fuels in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2710, 2711, 2701, 2704, 2703 and 3 more headings; all buyers, not only public ones), down 24.1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 46 companies have won 211 public supply contracts for fuels in Belgium, in 118 award notices from 97 public buyers.","90.5% of these awards went to companies registered in Belgium; the most frequent foreign origin is Netherlands.","The five companies that win most often hold 44.5% of all awards.","18.4% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":211,"awardNotices":118,"winningCompanies":46,"publicBuyers":97,"awardsWithValue":137,"awardedValueEur":678023893,"localAwards":191,"foreignAwards":20,"top5Share":0.44549763033175355,"singleBidAwards":29,"awardsWithKnownBids":158,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":12,"awardNotices":8,"awardsWithValue":10,"awardedValueEur":32841944},{"year":2024,"awards":75,"awardNotices":40,"awardsWithValue":54,"awardedValueEur":292736106},{"year":2025,"awards":55,"awardNotices":34,"awardsWithValue":24,"awardedValueEur":55314344},{"year":2026,"awards":69,"awardNotices":36,"awardsWithValue":49,"awardedValueEur":297131498}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2710","label":"Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals (excl. crude)"},{"hs4":"2711","label":"Petroleum gas and other gaseous hydrocarbons"},{"hs4":"2701","label":"Coal"},{"hs4":"2704","label":"Coke and semi-coke of coal, of lignite or of peat, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"2703","label":"Peat, incl. peat litter, whether or not agglomerated"},{"hs4":"4402","label":"Wood charcoal, incl. shell or nut charcoal, whether or not agglomerated (excl. wood charcoal used as a medicament, charcoal mixed with incense, activated charcoal and charcoal in the form of crayons)"},{"hs4":"2702","label":"Lignite, whether or not agglomerated (excl. jet)"},{"hs4":"2705","label":"Coal gas, water gas, producer gas, lean gas and similar gases (excl. petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons)"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":55396626303},{"year":2024,"valueEur":45203171010},{"year":2025,"valueEur":42069832547}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Belgium — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €99.6 billion in 2025, 15.5% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":99553000000,"percentOfGdp":15.5,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":28.5,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Fuels market in Belgium\", https://cresques.com/markets/be/091-fuels, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}